A/RES/3155(XXVIII) GA

Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Fourth Committee 105 3. Invites all States to make or continue to make generous offers of study and training facilities to the inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories; 4. Requests those States offering scholarships to in- form the Secretary-General of the details of the offers made and the scholarships granted under this pro- gramme and. whenever possible, rto provide travel funds to prospective students; 5. Requests the administering Powers concerned to intensify widespread and continuous dissemination in the Territories under their administration of information relating to offers of study and training facilities made by States and to provide all the necessary facilities to enable s,tudents to avail ,themselves of such offers; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution; 7. Draws the attention of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colo- nial Countries and Peoples to the present resolution. 2198th plenary meeting 12 December 1973 3155 (XXVIII). Question of Niue The General Assembly, Having considered the question of Niue, Having examined the relevant chapters of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,48 Having heard the statement of the Leader of Gov- ernment of Niue,0 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Recalling its resoJutions 2868 (XXVI) of 20 De- cember 1971 and 2986 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972, Recalling the report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Niue, 1972,50 Noting with satisfaction the outcome of the consti- tutional talks between the administering Power and a Niuean Government delegation which was embodied in a joint communique issued at Wellington on 2 March 1973,51 Noting further that a time-table has been established for the completion in 1974 of the final steps which will enable Niue to achieve self-government, Mindful of the responsibility of the United Nations to render all help to the people of Niue in their efforts freely to decide their own future, 1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Niue to self-determination in conformity with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV); • 8 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 21 (A/9023/Rev.l ), chaps. III and XVI. 49 lbid., Twenty-eighth Session, Fourth Committee, 2067th meeting. IIO Ibid., Twenty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 23 (Al 8723/Rev.1), chap. XVI, annex J. 51 Jbid., Twenty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/9023/ Rev.1), chap. XVI, annex, para. 19. 2. Approves the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Imple- mentation of the Declaration on the Granting of Inde- pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to Niue52 and endorses the conclusions and recommen- dations of the Special Committee on the question; 3. Notes with approval that, during the period since the United Nations Mission visited Niue in June 1972, the Government and people of Niue resolved to achieve self-government in 1974 and that agreement has been reached with the Government of New Zealand, as the administering Power, on a specific time-table for the free exercise by the people of Niue of their right to self-determination; 4. Welcomes the invitation extended by the ad- ministering Power to the Secretary-General for the United Nations to observe the act of self-determination in Niue in 1974; 5. Requests ·the Special Committee, in consultation with the administering Power and the Government of Niue, to appoint a special mission to Niue in 1974 which will observe the proceedings relating to the act of self-determination by the people of Niue and to re- port to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth ses- sion; 6. Requests the administering Power and the Gov- ernment of Niue, as well as the Secretary-General, to provide all the necessary assistance and facilities to the special mission in the discharge of its task; 7. Requests the Special Committee to report on this question to the General Assembly at its twenty~ninth session. 2202nd plenary meetinf? 14 December 197 3 3156 (XXVIII). Question of American Samoa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Guam, New Hehrides, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Seychelles and Solomon Islands The General Assembly, Having considered the question of American Samoa, Gi_lbert and Ellice Islands, Guam, New Hebrides, Pit- cairn, St. Helena, Seychelles and Solomon Islands, Having examined the relevant chapters of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Grant- ing of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peo- ples, 53 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of !ndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and its resolution 2621 (XXV) of 12 October 1970 con- taining the programme of action for the full impl~men- tation of the Declaration, Recalling also its previous resolutions relating to the Territories listed above, in particular resolution 2984 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972, Noting with concern that many of the provisions of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, as weU as the related recommendations of the Special Committee, remain largely unimplemented as regards those Territories, in particular with respect to the establishment of a specific time-table for the exercise 52 fbid., chap. 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